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To: Road Walker who wrote (284864)	4/21/2006 12:53:56 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572711

"did a study and the end product was that with a single payer system, including all the current uninsured, would be cheaper in total than the current system." Administrative overhead is often neglected. The city of Austin did a study back in the 1970s on their mass transit system. They found it would be cheaper just to make it free, the cost of collecting and managing the money exceeded the value of what was taken in. And that set off a storm of protest, they wound up raising the rates to cover the cost of collecting the money without changing the amount that the city subsidized the system. This made sense to someone I am sure...